In some areas farmers can get authorization to kill lots of deer because they are damaging his crops. I don't know the details just that in some places, I believe Tennessee is an example, this can be done.

To get on my soap box for just a moment, the described story illustrates another distortion and unnatural result from the obsession with big antlers. In my opinion hunting is not about taking the biggest rack and competing with others to get the biggest rack or trying to get into the record book. Hunting is about taking game for eating under fair chase conditions, and in this construction does are just as worthy a quarry as bucks. I grant bucks are more cautious and challenging to hunt. I also grant that in some places tradition centers on hunting bucks because formerly, when deer populations were thin, hunting bucks to the exclusion of does better preserved the limited deer resource. Today I think few places need to preserve the limited deer population. But . . . this is my personal opinion and I know many others totally disagree. I support everyone's right to hunt as they prefer, within the constraints of the law, and that includes preferring to hunt bucks with big antlers if that is your thing.